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Facebook doesn't think everyone's commie mutant traitors. :P

I know it isn't likely, but I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for a technological singularity. That'd solve a lot of problems. Or end up producing something worse than Skynet, GLaDOS, and that computer from Paranoia combined. :P Either way, I'm being way too optimistic.

Unfortunately, no.

I've been reading Surface Detail, by Iain M. Banks, and was thinking it would be interesting to add some ships from it into Orbiter. The sheer size of some of the ships (Sense amid Madness, Wit amidst Folly, for example, IIRC, is something like 50 km wide, 100 km, and 1 km 'thick'). Plus...

Yeah, Yeah, whatever. I know that it's statistically unlikely (And for the uranium and radon stuff, impossible), but it still could happen.

Radon and uranium are so rare compared to things like boron and such that using that as a comparison makes little to no sense. Also, if FTL does turn out to be impossible, humanity is screwed in the long run.

Eh, It's about time I took another look at it, anyways. Haven't worked on it in months. Also, VASIMR.

*Sigh.* Oh well. Time to do an extensive overhaul of one of my sci-fi settings...

I'm just saying, considering how big the universe is, there's bound to be at least one world where a complex ecology has developed that uses liquid ammonia. Just sayin'.

Yeah, yeah, I'm familiar with all that stuff, but I'd like to see some really bizarre stuff. Neutron star life. Ecologies developed from Von Neumann Probes. Life in the atmosphere of a gas giant. Creatures that drink liquid ammonia. Stuff like that.

I just find the idea that the only viable biochemistries are variants on the carbon/water setup so... depressing.

Hey, OA is hard sci-fi. It focuses on realism.

I'm hoping the Alcubierre Drive concept turns out to be viable, personally. Why move a ship when you can move space? Also, alternative biochemistries (Orion's Arm has a good list.). It'd be interesting to see how colonists would adapt to those.

Also, are there any utilities for converting image files (.png, .jpg, .bmp, etc.) into .tex files?

I'm trying to create a few new solar systems, namely ones from a science fiction worldbuilding project of mine, so when I run a RP based in said setting I can provide visuals/add a bit of a challenge in the form of having the player whose character is the ship's pilot (Because it's going to...

Yeah, I'm aware that I can edit keymap.cfg. Also, I feel stupid for forgetting about the FN key...

I use a laptop, and was wondering if anybody has a keymap suited to a QWERTY keyboard that is lacking a numpad they could share.

I personally prefer Celestia and Universe Sandbox.

Hey. I'm from Canada. Not much else to say, really, except that I'm a worldbuilder by hobby, an aspie by neurochemistry, and a transhumanist by choice.